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A podcast dedicated to the Groovy programming language and its ecosystem
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Feb 5, 2015
Feb 5, 2015
38 min
We discuss new releases of Groovy, Gradle, Grails, Ratpack, and Grooscript. Full show notes here.
Jan 21, 2015
Jan 21, 2015
45 min
The big news is Pivotal's announcement that they will no longer be sponsoring the Groovy and Grails projects as of the beginning of April. In this episode I talk to Guillaume Laforce and Graeme Rocher - the respective project leads - about the decision and what the future looks like for the two projects.
* Groovy 2.4 is out - with Android support!
* Grails 3 is progressing nicely with the first milestone due imminently
* Gradle 2.3.0.RC1 due out 22nd January
* Swiss Knife 1.2.1 released - view injection and threading library for Groovy on Android
* First GrailsConf in India this month
Conferences to put in your calendar:
* GREACH 9 - 11 April
* Spring I/O 29 - 30 April
* GR8Conf EU 2 - 4 June
* Gradle Summit 11 - 12 June
* GR8Conf US 29 - 31 July
Jun 26, 2014
Jun 26, 2014
47 min
Today, we have an interview with Baruch Sadogursky of JFrog to discuss Groovy, Gradle, Bintray and more.
Show notes
- Gradle Summit 2014 summary by John Engelman
- Bintray Gradle plugin version 0.4 and 0.4.1 released this week
- Blog post on contributing to the Groovy documentation
- Cédric Champeau shows us how easy it is to set up the Groovy project in IntelliJ
- Guillaume Laforge’s weekly Groovy newsletter
- Jacob Aae Mikkelsen's Grails diary
Jun 19, 2014
Jun 19, 2014
31 min
We bring you the usual news from the Groovy ecosystem.
Show notes
- Groovy on Android (AKA Swift on Android) blog post and sample app
- Groovy 2.4 beta 1 is out
- Groovy dev conf notes
- Macro system for AST transforms
- Grails 2.4.1 and 2.3.10 released
- Griffon 2.0 beta released
- Gradle 2.0 RC1 released
- Gradle plugin portal
- Unit testing Javascript with Spock (David Norton)
- Non-trivial REST APIs with Grails 2.3+ (Chris Latimer)
- GMaven Plus
- MrHaki’s SpockLight on data variables for labels
May 29, 2014
May 29, 2014
34 min
We bring you the usual news from the Groovy ecosystem plus we have an interview with two ladies behind the GR8 Ladies and GR8 Workshops initiatives.
Show notes
- To get involved with GR8 Ladies, just head to their landing page - it has links to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and GitHub
- Grails 2.4 released
- Grails Maven plugin has better multi-project support and supports different versions of Grails
- Grails 3 will be based on Spring Boot and Gradle
- Learn about the dangers of a super fast JSON parser
- Netflix are re-architecting Asgard using Spring Boot micro services
- Grooscript (the Groovy -> Javascript tool) reaches version 0.5
- The Grails mailing lists are now closed - use StackOverflow for questions on how to use Grails and the new Google Group for discussions
- As Vagrant now supports Windows guest VMs, it's good to know you can get hold of free, time-limited ones from Microsoft
- Spring One 2GX preliminary schedule is up
- GR8 Conf EU is next week, 2-4 June
- Gradle Summit: 12-13 June
- GR8Conf US: 28-29 July
May 8, 2014
May 8, 2014
40 min
We bring you the usual news from the Groovy ecosystem plus we have an interview with the man behind the Asset Pipeline Grails plugin: David Estes.
Show notes
- Groovy 2.3.0 final released!
- Clarification: Groovy 2.3 of course runs on JDK 6 & 7 as well as JDK 8
- Mr Haki adds much more Groovy Goodness
- Groovy 2.3 Builder AST transformation demo
- GSP and GORM with Spring Boot
- Groovy used in SmartThings (IoT)
- GVM for PowerShell
- Greach videos
- SocialAuth with Grails
- A light-hearted (?) essay on why Programming Sucks
- Turbo Links for Grails
Apr 29, 2014
Apr 29, 2014
41 min
Everything and anything about the Groovy programming language.
Show notes:
- Grails in Action DOTD code: dotd042514au valid for 25th April, 2014 - http://www.manning.com/gsmith2/
- Deals of the Day on Making Java Groovy (http://www.manning.com/kousen/) and Griffon in Action (http://www.manning.com/almiray/) as well
- What's new in JDK 8: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/8-whats-new-2157071.html
- Highlights of what's coming in Groovy 2.3: http://glaforge.appspot.com/article/a-beta-release-for-groovy-2-3
- What's new in Grails 2.4: http://grails.org/doc/2.4.0.M2/guide/introduction.html#whatsNew24
- Elastic Search Grails plugin: http://grails.org/plugin/elasticsearch
- Why TDD isn't dead: http://geepawhill.org/?p=47